Blenheim House Hotel, 14 Westgate, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Blenheim House Hotel, 14 Westgate, North Berwick
- WRENN ID
- tilted-gargoyle-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blenheim House Hotel, located at 14 Westgate in North Berwick, is a 2-storey Italianate villa built around 1860. Originally designed with three bays and flanking single-storey wings, the eastern wing has been raised, and a new bay has been added in a sympathetic style, following renovations by J M Dick Peddie in 1895 that created a neo-symmetrical facade. The building features squared and coursed rubble on the sides, with part of the rear harled. The front is finished in painted ashlar, with rusticated quoins, raised cill and eaves courses, and margins, topped by an eaves cornice.
On the south elevation, there is a tripartite classical porch supported by pedestalled piers, complete with a cornice and balustrade. The advanced flanking bays contain tripartite windows at the ground level, while the first floor has single lights with apron panels. The single-storey wings are flat-roofed and set back.
The north elevation features a tall round-arched stair window at the center and an advanced bay to the right with a full-height canted bay. There are modern additions at the ground level and alterations to the wings.
The 1895 extension on the south elevation includes an advanced outer bay to the east, which is similarly detailed with a bipartite window at ground level and a single bay above that bridges with the extension. The north elevation has a pedimented and advanced outer bay with a full-height canted window, alongside a recessed single bay to the right.
The windows throughout are plate glass sash and case. The building has low-pitched slate roofs with end and roof stacks.
Inside, the hotel has undergone significant alterations. It features a stone dog-leg stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade, panelled doors, and a tiled vestibule.
The boundary walls are built of rubble, including a retaining wall to the south.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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